poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your poetry? Without music, there is no poetry.

What poets changed the way you thought about writing? For years, my go-to was George Bowering, a poet I’d first encountered during m...

Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began? Very much so. I’ve spent the past decade moving through the sentence very ...

How do you know when a poem is finished? Experience.

How did you first engage with poetry? I’m not entirely sure. I remember seeing Dennis Lee on Mr. Dressup somewhere in the 1970s. I’v...

rob mclennan [photo credit: Stephen Brockwell] lives in Ottawa, where he runs a reading series three blocks away from where he was bo...